jason watts wrote:
yea, sorry, long day and big brain fart... ment all that as 64 bit
systems
From: Ian Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[email protected]>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] 86 bit question
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:55:24 -0400
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:40:48PM -0400, jason watts wrote:
> this box is an 86 bit pc, was wondering if i downloaded centos 4
... the 86
> bit version, would i have to download then ALL 86 bit software for it?
>
86 bit support is generally terrible, ranging from nonexistant to
nonexistant. You could try running a 64 bit distro, though.
I'm so sad that Ian K. beat me to making that joke. Kudos to Ian for
doing a good job of it, though.
I'm also going to venture off on a short tangent, as a suggestion to
Jason Watts, and the few other people who've been guilty of this
recently. When starting a new thread on the list, please actually
compose a new message. The mechanics of this differ from email client
to email client, but replying to an existing thread, and changing the
subject, is not a sufficient way to break it from the existing thread*.
This isn't really a thing I'm complaining about because it makes my life
hard**, but it probably measurably decreases the likelihood that you'll
get an appropriate response to your question. This thread is a good
example, because your first response ("what is this stuff?") was a reply
to Tanner's message about the "Ohio LinuxFest 2006". Since I live in
California now and have no intention of traveling to Ohio, it's entirely
likely that I, and anyone else who wasn't interested in the LinuxFest,
wouldn't even open the thread but would delete it out-right. The second
time you replied to your own message*** to start the thread "86 bit
question"****.
I don't mean to single you out in a negative way, I just want to bring
it to your attention and the attention of anyone else with this habit,
that it's counter productive to your presumed goal of soliciting
information from the people on this list. So, please take the
suggestion as it's meant, with a smile and good intentions. We'll look
forward to more interesting questions in the future. I will now return
you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Aaron S. Joyner
* - For a full discussion of why, read up on the "In-Reply-To:" header.
** - Although it almost made me miss an 86bit architecture joke, which
would have been a travesty in itself.
*** - Not ideal, but that's another discussion.
**** - A truly classic subject line.
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